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obsidianOct 2, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Bases Kanban: A Board That Is Just Your Notes
Obsidian 1.14 adds a native kanban layout to Bases. Here's how to build a board where dragging a card rewrites a property, where it beats the Kanban plugin, and where it still falls short.
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obsidianSep 22, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Bookmarks: The Core Plugin That Replaces Your Dashboard Note
Bookmarks is a core plugin most people use to pin three notes and forget about. It can pin saved searches, headings, blocks, and whole tab groups, which makes the hand-maintained dashboard note redundant.
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obsidianSep 11, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian's Note Composer: Refactor Your Notes Without Copy-Paste
Note composer is a core Obsidian plugin that merges notes and extracts selections into new ones, rewriting your links as it goes. Here's how to actually use it.
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obsidianSep 8, 2026· 4 min
Semantic Search in Obsidian: What Embeddings Find That Keywords Miss
Obsidian's search operators are precise, but they only find notes when you remember the words you used.
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obsidianAug 25, 2026· 3 min
Writing an Obsidian Plugin Is Smaller Than You Think
Most people patch around a missing Obsidian feature with a Templater script and a CSS snippet. The plugin API is often the shorter path, and the surface…
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obsidianAug 18, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Workspaces: Stop Rebuilding Your Layout Every Time You Switch Tasks
Workspaces is a core Obsidian plugin that saves your entire pane layout under a name and restores it in one command.
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obsidianAug 14, 2026· 4 min
One Vault or Many? What Splitting an Obsidian Vault Actually Costs You
Splitting your Obsidian vault feels like tidying up, but a vault boundary is a hard wall your search, links, and queries cannot cross.
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obsidianAug 11, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian Search Operators: Find Anything Without a Plugin
Obsidian's core Search has a real query language hiding behind the search box. Here's how file, path, line, block, section, task, and property operators…
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obsidianAug 7, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian Block Embeds: Stop Copy-Pasting Your Own Notes
Whole-note embeds are the easy part. Block references are where transclusion in Obsidian actually pays off, and where one misplaced caret silently breaks…
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obsidianAug 4, 2026· 3 min
Inline Dataview Queries: Live Numbers Inside Your Notes
Dataview code blocks give you tables. Inline queries give you a single live value in the middle of a sentence, which turns out to be the feature you reach…
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